SIR RADERIC.
That's too low.
IMMERITO. If any man or woman can tell any tidings of a horse with four feet, two ears, that did stray about the seventh hour, three minutes in the forenoon the fifth day—
PAGE. A book of[95] a horse, just as it were the eclipse of the moon. [Aside.
SIR RADERIC. Boy, write him down for a good utterance. Master Recorder, I think he hath been examined sufficiently.
RECORDER.
Ay, Sir Raderic, 'tis so; we have tried him very throughly.
PAGE. Ay, we have taken an inventory of his good parts, and prized them accordingly.
SIR RADERIC. Signior Immerito, forasmuch as we have made a double trial of thee—the one of your learning, the other of your erudition—it is expedient also, in the next place, to give you a few exhortations, considering the greatest clerks are not the wisest men. This is therefore, first, to exhort you to abstain from controversies; secondly, not to gird at men of worship, such as myself, but to use yourself discreetly; thirdly, not to speak when any man or woman coughs—do so, and in so doing, I will persevere to be your worshipful friend and loving patron.
IMMERITO.
I thank your worship, you have been the deficient cause of my preferment.
SIR RADERIC. Lead Immerito into my son, and let him despatch him; and remember—my tithes to be reserved, paying twelvepence a year. I am going to Moorfields to speak with an unthrift I should meet at the Middle-Temple about a purchase; when you have done, follow us.
[Exeunt IMMERITO and the PAGE.